"The More You Think of It, the Less the Difference": Rebirth and Animals in Thoreau and Tagore
The British Romantics and American Transcendentalists were deeply influenced by translations of Indian philosophical and literary texts. These writers in turn influenced English-educated Indians in the late colonial period. Living at opposite ends of the globe at different times and in vastly differ...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue on Steps to a Global Thought: Thinking from Elsewhere (pp. 411–611)" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2023
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Sophia
Year: 2023, Volume: 62, Issue: 3, Pages: 433-447 |
| Further subjects: | B
Rebirth
B Animals B Tagore B Thoreau B Hinduism |
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| Summary: | The British Romantics and American Transcendentalists were deeply influenced by translations of Indian philosophical and literary texts. These writers in turn influenced English-educated Indians in the late colonial period. Living at opposite ends of the globe at different times and in vastly different societies, Thoreau and Tagore, in different but overlapping ways, drew on the Hindu concept of rebirth to explore human relationships with non-human animals. This essay presents an overview of their imaginative forays in this regard, and examines in particular Thoreau's translation of an extract from the ancient Sanskrit text, the Harivaṃsha and Tagore's story Strīr Patra (A Wife's Letter). |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-023-00957-0 |